Our shop offers a wide range of services including engine diagnostics, brake repair, transmission service, and more for International trucks.
Yes, our repair shop employs certified mechanics with years of experience working on International trucks.
Yes, we can provide estimates for repair services before any work is done on your International truck.
Yes, our shop offers towing services for International trucks in Tacoma, WA.
Yes, we use genuine International truck parts in our repairs to ensure the quality and reliability of the work done on your truck.
The speed of repairs can vary depending on the extent of the damage, but we strive to complete repairs as efficiently as possible without sacrificing quality.
Every make fails in its own way. These are the jobs that come through the bays in Tacoma on International units — LT, LoneStar, HX and the MV series — running Cummins X15 and the International A26, plus legacy MaxxForce units.
DEF quality, dosing and NOx sensors, and the soft derate that arrives before the hard one. Caught early it is a sensor; left alone it is a filter.
The older units still working around the Port need EGR and aftertreatment attention on a schedule rather than on failure. We will tell you honestly when a repair stops being worth it on one of these.
International's body controllers throw faults that look mechanical. Diagnosis starts at the scan tool, not the wrench.
Vocational and dump work, heavy cycles, and the brake wear that comes with it.
The order matters more than the tool. We pull codes and freeze-frame data, read the history rather than the active fault, and measure before anything comes off the truck. On an aftertreatment complaint that means soot load, differential pressure and regen history; on an electrical complaint it means tracing the circuit instead of replacing the component the code names. You get a written estimate before the work starts, and a road test after it.
Two reasons, and neither is price alone. The shop sits at 1616 E 26th St inside the Port of Tacoma industrial area, so a drayage tractor is minutes away rather than an hour — and while the truck sits, the box on the chassis is accruing per-diem. And we work the trailer as well as the tractor, so a unit with an engine fault and a trailer ABS lamp is one visit and one invoice.
Related reading: what a derate is telling you.
Call (425) 900-6212 or book a slot. We are open Monday to Friday 8:00–18:00 and Saturday 8:00–16:00, and we run mobile and roadside service across the South Sound when the truck cannot come to us. Shop labour starts at $130 per hour; a DOT annual inspection is $80.
1616 E 26th St, Tacoma, WA 98421
Mon-Fri: 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM Saturday: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM Sunday: Closed
